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| GrandC
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|  "Xbox 360" , posted Fri 8 Apr 00:41
So what do you think about the next Xbox?
With a lot of Japanese developers, I believe Xbox2 will be better. Equal to PS3. And maybe... just maybe, beat PS3.
M$ has a great marketing division, Halo, BioWare, Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden, Rare, Father of Final Fantasy, Maker of Street Fighter, Maker of Rez and several SEGA's franchise.
And, hey. I'm not a fanboy, ok. I owned PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and recently PSP.
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| beto 844th Post
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|  "Re(6):Re(10):Xbox 360" , posted Sat 9 Apr 13:51
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That said, the Xbox 360/Next/Whatever is shaping up nicely -- Microsoft really seems to be going for strong 3rd party support amongst Japanese developers instead of making the machine home to almost solely FPSes (and I haven't liked an FPS since Quake I unless you count Metroid Prime). They really seem to understand what gamers want to buy whereas Sony seems to be relying on hype and brand loyalty (it worked for the big N, right? wait...) and Nintendo is off being all artsy and creative. Since all the next gen consoles are backwards-compatible, buying an Xbox 2 will also allow me to play what I missed on Microsoft's current console (namely Jade Empire).
List of companies supporting the X-Box 360:
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/602/602710p1.html
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8015/Microsoft-Announces-Publishers-Committed-to-Deliver-Content-for-NextGeneration-Xbox-Platform/
It should be said that, according to one of the Mizuguchi/Okamoto/Sakaguchi interviews, games made for the X-Box 360 cannot be ported to PS3, even if they wanted to. If that´s really true, every game will be exclusive.
Also... Jade Empire is getting great reviews (9.4, 9.9, and so on).
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| Undead Fred 2284th Post
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| "Re(1):Xbox 360" , posted Sat 9 Apr 18:07
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So what do you think about the next Xbox?
It's a premature ejaculation.
Really, consoles like the PSX and PS2 have been pushed to the fullest of their potential before moving on to a new console generation. Hell, EVERY console I've seen so far has done that but the XBox... it's got a lot of potential to last a few more years, but since we're hasty and wasteful here in the US, we've got to hurry out a new generation of the console since it will somehow completely guarantee a winning position in the gaming market. Personally, I don't really see that happening... I think it'll do okay, but since a lot of people still have XBoxes that they had only bought a few years ago (and possibly spent large amounts of money having repaired), and the console hasn't shown itself to be wearing thin in terms of power, I doubt a majority of people will be rushing out to spend ANOTHER $300 on a console just yet. And if the Japanese market doesn't seriously love this new XBox, then they'll still be behind. I don't know, I may be wrong, but I can't see this one topping the first one as far as sales go.
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| Iggy 6272th Post
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| "Re(9):Re(10):Xbox 360" , posted Sun 10 Apr 18:30:
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They're sitting on a lot of cash, yes. But if there's no growth within the company, there go the investors. They'll burn a lot of cash trying to get them back too. If Nintendo revolution fails, it's going to be very difficult for them to catch up at all.
They have two portable devices alive and selling like hot dogs, they already said this was their priority, They don't need to worry. They are even healthier now than when the N64 bombed.
Sony is in trouble on the other hand. The other branches of the company are doing poorly, the PSP rtequires a lot on investment, and if it doesn't sell enough or if the PS3 fails, I can see them going down.
Also, Miyamoto is a jerk and I want to kick him in the nuts everytime I see him talking of virtually anything.
I insist on the "it's fun to see people trash the hype machine of Sony and then praise the Game Creatorrrrs that joined the X Box 2". The first test for Games Republic will be released on the 30/06 but if it still sucks as badly as it did the last time we saw it, I'm sure Okamoto will duck with some "and that's why we need the X Box 2!" or some shit.
Being a Game Creatorrrrrr is quite a job.
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| KTallguy 602th Post
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| "Re(10):Re(10):Xbox 360" , posted Mon 11 Apr 00:00
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They have two portable devices alive and selling like hot dogs, they already said this was their priority, They don't need to worry. They are even healthier now than when the N64 bombed.
That may be true, but does that mean that Nintendo will become a portable gaming company and forever shy away from non-portable hardware?
I wouldn't say that Nintendo is 'healthy', but I wouldn't say it's going down yet. Nintendo just needs to create more original, winning franchises, which is eXtremely risky (so much so that the x needs to be capitalized). Also they need to fix their image in America, and make it more 'adult', as much as I think it's stupid, it's necessary.
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Sony is in trouble on the other hand. The other branches of the company are doing poorly, the PSP rtequires a lot on investment, and if it doesn't sell enough or if the PS3 fails, I can see them going down.
I agree that Sony that is in trouble in regards to its TV and Audio departments. However, PS2 is still doing well. PSP is hmm, hard to call right now.
I'm doubting that the PS3 will utterly fail. Unless the hardware simply sucks, and the games are utter crap, then Sony seems like they have next-gen already. It's Sony's game to lose.
All my opinion, but hmm, it's tough to call right ?
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| Burning Ranger 1157th Post
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| "Re(2):Xbox 360" , posted Thu 14 Apr 07:52
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Really, consoles like the PSX and PS2 have been pushed to the fullest of their potential before moving on to a new console generation. Hell, EVERY console I've seen so far has done that but the XBox... it's got a lot of potential to last a few more years, but since we're hasty and wasteful here in the US, we've got to hurry out a new generation of the console since it will somehow completely guarantee a winning position in the gaming market. Personally, I don't really see that happening... I think it'll do okay, but since a lot of people still have XBoxes that they had only bought a few years ago (and possibly spent large amounts of money having repaired), and the console hasn't shown itself to be wearing thin in terms of power, I doubt a majority of people will be rushing out to spend ANOTHER $300 on a console just yet. And if the Japanese market doesn't seriously love this new XBox, then they'll still be behind. I don't know, I may be wrong, but I can't see this one topping the first one as far as sales go.
Well, I will say that the first machine out the door has the disadvantage that the next thing to come out might be better than the first. I think the Dreamcast was a good example of this. Dreamcast was the first 128-bit machine out the door, but the the PS2 came out after and had some better aspects (but some not so better *cough* Jaggies-galore *cough cough*). The new X-box may have the same problem if Sony decides not to show their cards at the same time.
As for popularity, I bet the Xbox will survive in the US if not in Japan. While it may not have a lot of Japanese developers (actually, it does), there will be a ton of US and European developers itching to release games on it. And of course, MS has Halo, which is a killer app for the Western market.
Still... too early to tell, but thats my $.02.
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| Undead Fred 2303th Post
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| "Re(3):Xbox 360" , posted Fri 15 Apr 01:29
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Well, I will say that the first machine out the door has the disadvantage that the next thing to come out might be better than the first. I think the Dreamcast was a good example of this. Dreamcast was the first 128-bit machine out the door, but the the PS2 came out after and had some better aspects (but some not so better *cough* Jaggies-galore *cough cough*). The new X-box may have the same problem if Sony decides not to show their cards at the same time.
As for popularity, I bet the Xbox will survive in the US if not in Japan. While it may not have a lot of Japanese developers (actually, it does), there will be a ton of US and European developers itching to release games on it. And of course, MS has Halo, which is a killer app for the Western market.
Still... too early to tell, but thats my $.02.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too... Microsoft's got this stupid idea that rushing out a new console generation a year before the rest will make them "win," but as you said, the next generation can easily see what their specs are and top them. PS2 did that to Dreamcast, then XBox did that to PS2. But if you'll notice, high power didn't guarantee that the XBox was the king of the market. So, that must have been when they decided that it was just that they were "late" to the market. It couldn't have been their system, right? It can do great things, so it had to be that they were late.... and nothing to do with getting more game makers from Japan to make games for the console. At least they SAY they're doing it now, and maybe the Japanese market will actually get into this new XBox. Personally, I don't care if it fails or succeeds... the XBox 1 cost so much money (buying it, then repair costs when it breaks 5 or 6 times, plus the DVD remote if you want to watch DVD's on it) that I would rather systems like that stay at a #2 rank.
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